Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I consider it bike packing if you are not using racks, thus I would consider saddle bag, frame bag and handlebar harness on a road bike like below to be bikepacking, but some would say even that is not bikepacking because they think bikepacking is only done on dirt, not pavement.
Of course you know that I’m in the camp that would not call this “bikepacking”. Yes, you are using bikepacking bags but that doesn’t make it “bikepacking”. I wouldn’t call the picture of me from 1986 “bikepacking” because the term hadn’t been coined yet.